United States v. Logan Storm

MEMORANDUM

Defendant Logan Storm appeals his conviction of possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B), (b)(2), and failure to appear in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 3146 (a)(1), (b)(l)(A)(ii). Storm appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress the child pornography and decision to allow the government to publish images of child pornography to the jury, as well as the conditions of supervised release for his failure to appear conviction.

1. There was sufficient probable cause to support the state search warrant allowing the seizure of any of Storm’s digital media storage devices for offsite examination. See United States v. Schesso, 730 F.3d 1040, 1043 (9th Cir.2013). Based on statements by Storm’s two cohabitants that Storm had stored child pornography on various electronic devices, officials had probable cause to search all of Storm’s electronic media for child pornography. Id. Offsite examination was appropriate because the files may have been disguised, erased, hidden, or encrypted, United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc., 621 F.3d 1162, 1168 (9th Cir.2010) (en banc), so they could not “feasibly [have] be[en] sorted on…